Supplyiii.ii: the Market with Diieks From 



Above: A duck 

 farm where 124,000 

 ducks are raised for 

 the market each 

 year. About seven 

 thousand ducks are 

 hatched each week. 

 The photograph 

 shows the ducks 

 drinking from a 

 trough. Water is 

 supphed from the 

 pipe running above 



Below: Taking the 

 temperature of the 

 eggs in the incuba- 

 tor. About 2,200 

 ducks are kept in 

 the nest pens. 

 The eggs are 

 gathered from these 

 pens at the rate of 

 1,800 a day and 

 put in the incubntor 



Above: The farm upon 

 which the ducks are 

 raised is traversed by 

 a creek which is divided 

 into pens with sloping 

 banks of sand upon 

 which the feeding 

 troughs are placed. 

 The brooding season is 

 not continuous. The 

 incubators turn out 

 their hatchings from 

 early' in March until 

 early in July. Market- 

 ing of the six months- 

 old and year old birds 

 begins in April and lasts 

 until about November. 

 Tlic season for the 

 younger ducklings is 

 considerably shorter 



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